amazing

i got to go to a free screening of michael apted's new film, amazing grace, on friday. it is brilliant.

i appreciated the film's honesty and ability to show christians as genuine human beings who have wit and charm and failings, but who strive for truth and justice.

my friend, kelli, noted how the film didn't follow the normal pattern of "problem to solution in no time flat" - but allowed the story to take time, to allow temporary defeat, and then, to pick up again to carry through to the end.

i don't want to say too much before it's open, but definitely put it on your lists to see. i mean, it has albert finney, michael gambon, ciarán hinds, ioan gruffudd, rufus sewell, etc.

opens feb 23. the 200 year anniversary of wilberforce's triumph in parliament over the slave trade. i always like when things like that happen (events occurring on related special dates).

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a two-hour example

just watched the devil wears prada which a fellow california PA recommended to me. he said it's a great depiction of what it is to be a production assistant. a little glamourized, a little dramatic, but scarily true. i didn't last as long as long as the girl in the movie did, and i never worked for anyone quite that demanding - but it seriously was crazy what was expected. the whole - here's a list of five nearly impossible tasks that must be done in this amount of time w/o any details and always the assumption that you have a clue what or who they're talking about - that was definitely the reality. i think if i'd been straight out of college - i would've stuck it out longer, but having been graduated for over six years makes me less willing to hand over my life just to get ahead. the movie was pretty good, nothing spectacular, but worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

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